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Lane County was named for General Joseph Lane, the first
Territorial Governor of Oregon and created January 28, 1851,
by the territorial legislature. It then comprised "all
that portion of Oregon Territory lying south of Linn County
and south or so much of Benton County as is east of Umpqua
County." It's eastern boundary, presumably, was the
Rocky Mountains.

On Dec. 22, 1853, its eastern boundary was fixed at the summit
of the Cascade Range, with a small portion at the mouth of the
Siuslaw River on the coast. Linn and Benton Counties, created
earlier, became its northern boundaries, with Lincoln County
added in 1893. On the south, much of Lane County was
given a fixed boundary in January, 1852.

General Joseph Lane, first Territorial governor of Oregon,
subsequently a delegate to congress, and after the admission
of Oregon into the Union, a United States Senator.

In 1852, the original town site of Eugene City was platted and
recorded, while in 1853, by a vote of the people she was
established as the county seat.

My name is Jim Dezotell and as your Lane County, Oregon host I
try to post as
much data on-line as possible in order to make it freely
available to all. We gratefully accept contributions of
raw data such as census information, marriage/birth/death
records, obituaries, county histories, biographies, old
newspaper items - anything that would help someone build their
family tree!!
Feel free to email me with your contributions - every little
bit helps.